Nourishing the Planet in the Charleston Gazette

Check out our op-ed, co-written with Frank Place from the World Agroforestry Centre, in yesterday’s Charleston Gazette. In West Virginia, just a few miles outside of Charleston, fields are cleared for livestock and agriculture, mountaintops are blasted for mining and the Kanawha forest is protected as national park. But in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Agroforestry Centre is helping farmers integrate all of these elements of nature together through agroforestry—the inclusion of trees alongside crops— to increase yields, provide livestock fodder, improve soil quality, regulate water flows and generate more income.